Goal

For

• RHEL 9.5
• openssh-clients-8.7p1-45.el9.x86_64

Now writes out extra text on error.

$ ssh -oConnectTimeout=1 XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX ssh: connect to host XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX port 22: Connection timed out
                                                                   <---
 You can find some explanations for typical errors at this link:   <---  
         https://red.ht/support_rhel_ssh                           <--- 

This is requiring rework for multiple internal customer components to deal with the extra output. Customer would like the ability to disable new output.

Acceptance criteria

Possible solutions from customer.

• A dedicated configuration item to disable text - This is the customer's preferred option. or
• Passing a runtime flag or
• Setting an environment variable or
• Removal of new text from 'ssh'.

Possible solutions from SMEs

• Printing the message only in non-quiet mode (options.log_level != SYSLOG_LEVEL_QUIET). or
• Revert change so not to diverge from upstream.

Extra notes

• Introduced by RHEL-33809